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Girish Karnad’s best-known play staged

BHUBANESWAR: In sharp contrast to the simplicity of the story and narration of the play ‘Maunsa’ that was staged during the inaugural evening of the ongoing Rang Pratibha festival for young directors of Orissa on Sunday, ‘Nagamandal’, a play of immense complexities - both in theme and treatment - was presented on Monday by the young band of NQ Theatre of Bhubaneswar led by its director Nalini Nihar Nayak.

The best-known play of the acclaimed actor and Kannada playwright Girish Karnad, ‘Nagamandal’ has been translated into several Indian languages and has been staged time and again throughout the country.

And the appeal of the classic excited the young theatre director, alumnae from the Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya (USM), to attempt its Oriya adaptation.

“We have tried our best to put the play into the Oriya milieu. While Sukesh Panda, my teacher, has toiled to translate the play fitting it into the Oriya language and culture, I have liberally incorporated elements from the traditional music and dance of Orissa,” pointed out the director, now a faculty member of the USM’s drama department.

The play was presented at the recently concluded National University theatre festival at Bangalore that was hosted by Karnataka Natak Akademi in association with the University of Bangalore and University of Mysore.

The uniqueness of the festival was that it featured 25 plays in various Indian languages which were based on Kannada literature, he revealed and added that the Oriya adaptation of ‘Nagamandal’ was lauded by the audience there.

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